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OMG failed in the cross post!

Singed gets ganked:

Sigh…sometimes I’m an idiot. Thanks, that’s just what I was looking for.

On patch days you usually require another player. On not patch days you don’t.

A question: does Soraka roam well? Had a roaming Soraka in a ranked game with me bot as Renekton vs Ashe and TF. Got a couple of kills on them but had to build tanky up front to prevent being owned when Soraka wandered. Rest of team was Alistar, Lux (mid) and lee sin in the jungle. Their team was Ashe, TF, Pantheon, and Singed and Veigar (no jungler). We did well early game but then lost late game as all fights always ended up with 2 adds, and team-on-team fights were impossible because we just couldn’t reach their back row guys. I could dash in, but they would stun and kite while the rest of our team didn’t quite get in to do damage. Got fairly fed too - Warmog’s, GA, Black Cleaver, Yomumus, etc. Got a triple kill too! Didn’t help in the long run. Sad panda.

Lux got mad that we didn’t reach Ashe often enough and also complained about our team’s lack of damage.

Ridiculous. I’m going to start playing as that bastard. I’m tired of everyone else having the fun

Of the past ten games - 9 losses, 1 win. I’M ON A ROLL. Had bads, bads, bads all day - a Ryze who raged, fed and team-talked because his lanemate was a terrible blitz (he was truly awful) and just now a GP and Malz who were meant to carry us and utterly, utterly failed (65 minute game and no resist items on GP and he complained, and complained, and complained about being focused all the time. I WONDER WHY, BRAINIAC?!).

I’m now at 1087 and dropping 60 a day. GO GO TEAM ME.

yeah man, I feel your pain. I’m down to 1022 or something at this point. Can’t catch a break.

There’s some really bad play going on in ranked now, wonder if it’s from the rumored ELO reset.

I’m talking about another bundle. There’s the boxed copy (which I bought), but there is also another bundle you can purchase online called the ā€œChampions Bundleā€ which contains a crudload more champions. It is two wholly separate bundles.

I don’t think (thought maybe I’m wrong) that there is a boxed copy counterpart to the Champions Bundle.

Watching a Corki video on Solomid. Start of the game, just as minions have spawn, and this is the teamchat:

ā€œStopppā€
ā€œFuckerā€
ā€œRetard PLā€
ā€œHey faggot amumuā€
ā€œHang yourselfā€

Oh well. The guy doing the video’s already put two of them on ignore…

Tha reminded me to do my Tribunal tonight.

Oh, Corki is getting a nurf - too much burst, too much damage (second only to Ashe as an AD carry, or something) says Morello. :(

Oh. Oh well.

Corki has a pretty decent skill cap. Most of the times I mid against him as Brand I will pretty definitively win the lane unless he gets a kill due to coming back with more powerful items… but most Corkis will Valkyrie into tower range to try to tower dive and I’ll just stun them, usually making it a 1-1 trade.

As I complained to Therlun earlier… getting to level 30 takes for-friggen-ever. >.<

I want Flash! Flash would be very fun.

Ha, you’re still <Lvl12 ?

I started playing around when Dreamhack started and i was 11, i think. I’m only now getting to 20 :s

Getting to 85 in WoW is way easier :(

Indeed and getting paired up with bads time and time again makes it even longer.

Which is good, because 30s would eat you alive, even without the rune/mastery difference. They’ve got, at minimum, 10x your experience. Sure, some are terrible. You could certainly beat some. But not most.

I’m pretty happy to remain at a lower level with scrubby opponents and no nagging obligation to purchase expensive runes, but I am a little curious about the Tribunal. A lot of it must be sifting through ā€œomg i wanted mid reportedā€ cases, but I just want to get a sense for whether such a weird system can even work.

No, it’s not good. Because I’m not getting any better playing against other level ~12 players. I’m already better than let’s say 7 of the 10 players in the game, and the general level of play is shit.

Most games just go… okay, I picked Ryze, I won my lane, I farmed like a madman, I died a few times in teamfights or when my teammates fucked up (Kog totally missing a slow, Kassadin saving his silence for a KS instead of silencing to prevent the enemy’s burst, etc) or rarely when I legitimately fuck up, then eventually I ran out of enemies to buy. Soon afterwards, the game ended.

I’m not going to learn to harass good players by harassing bad players. I’m not going to learn to anticipate ganks and build map awareness playing against players who don’t gank, and I’m not going to learn how to gank properly playing with players who sit back at max range from the creep line autoattacking. Nor am I going to learn how to capitalize on an enemy’s mistakes when I’m in a 2v2 lane and my lanemate is autoattacking creeps.